familiarness

State of recognition

Familiarness is the quality of being familiar—known, recognized, or comfortable through experience.

The word is rare; familiarity serves the same purpose and appears far more often in natural speech and writing: the familiarity of her voice, a sense of familiarity with the neighborhood.

acquaintance

recognition

Perceiving something as known

conversance · cognizance · exposure · experience · contact · introduction · encounter · meeting · connection · rapport

comfort

ease

Lack of strain

casualness · homeliness · coziness · warmth · friendliness · approachability · accessibility · unpretentiousness · simplicity · ordinariness

recognition

distinguishability

Capacity to be differentiated

obviousness · plainness · clarity · visibility · memorability · recollection · remembrance · recall · placement · association

Opposites
degree of acquaintance or recognition

familiarnessstrangeness

Quality of being peculiar

unfamiliarity · foreignness · alienness · eeriness · otherness

novelty and experience

familiarnessnewness

State of being recent

novelty · freshness · originality · unusualness · uncommonness

Family

family, familiar, familiarity, familial, familiarize

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G